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English Garden Eccentrics begins with a quotation from John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859), extolling eccentricity. Mill’s ingenious argument is that non-conformity is a weapon in society’s battle ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s new book is, as befits its subject, a glorious cabinet of ...

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS (376 pp.)—Dome Edith Sitwell—Vanguard ($5). Robert Coates, self-styled “Gifted Amateur,” was not just a bad actor—he was so execrable that Londoners of the early 19th century fought ...

We all need to affirm our legitimate strangeness, but eccentricity for its own sake is an unedifying spectacle. Genuine eccentrics are unaware of their condition; the remainder desperately seek ...

The two designers are working at the original English Eccentrics studio in north London, and have produced an autumn 09 collection inspired by calligraphy, with giant quill or parchment writing prints ...

Keith Richards said a flying saucer was once spotted near his home. Subsequently, the incident helped inspire one of The Rolling Stones‘ songs. In addition, Richards said the song was inspired by ...

MORETON-IN-MARSH, England -- The Cotswolds are gentle sheep-dotted hills that stretch west and north from Oxford, their soft sandstone used to build the pretty ochre villages that nestle in the lush ...

Like piccalilli and black pudding, two quintessentially British treats dropped, in passing, into the screenplay for “This Beautiful Fantastic,” this quirky English cinematic fable is probably ...